Conflict of cultures: a marginalised orphan of the colonial discourse ‘disinterred’ in Jack Maggs by Peter Carey
Jack Maggs by Peter Carey, being the Australian version of Dickens’s Great Expectations, challenges the Victorian propaganda about the primacy of a white race, openly opposing the Empire’s misdeeds and hypocritical behaviour of its citizens. Carey undermines the colonial discourse in the shape of Di...
Main Author: | Rafał Łyczkowski |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Academic Association for Doctoral Students of English Philology
2023-12-01
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Series: | Currents |
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Online Access: | https://www.currents.umk.pl/files/issues/9/c9-lyczkowski-conflict.pdf |
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